I like bike lanes, and I’m not particularly pleased to see them removed, but when a person on a bicycle with no brakes or lights and only a hint of bar tape says that bike lanes are “our only safety measure in the city” it makes me wish the city would administer some good old-fashioned parental discipline by taking away all the bike lanes until New York City cyclists start acting like grownups. Technically it’s illegal to ride a brakeless bike in New York City, so if you’re going to be an outlaw at least act like one. Don’t demand the city furnish you with the safety you won’t provide for yourself. It seems as though people want safety until it begins to clash with their personal aesthetic, and since you don’t actually need to wear a bike lane or bolt it to your bike then it’s all right to want one. Just blithely skip-stop your way around town, and when you inevitably fall-down-go-boom blame it on someone else.
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Bike Snob NYC (via jamesnord) (via mikehudack) My contempt for those who ride brakeless fixies knows no bounds. |
